Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-23

G. w. TUNNEL,
T. r. MOORE.
QUARTERLY REPORT OF COUNTY SUPER
INTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
Quarter begins Jan. l, 1887; ends March
%, 1887.
/. School Visitation:
l. District schools visited this quarter,
giving number of each district, 2, 16, IL,
%, % and %.
2. Total number of visits, six.
3. Average length of time spent in
actual school inspection, one-half day.
4. No. of written reports of such visits
made to the district board, two.
III. No. of consultations with district
boards, 10.
1. Att the time the district was visited, 2.
2. In my Office, 8.
Ill No. of days Office has been kept
open at county seat, 36.
". No. of examinations of district
clerks records. l.
/. No. found kept as required by law, 1.
V. No. of examinations of district treas
urers' records, 2.
l. No. found kept as required by law, 2.
VIII. Is the Office supplied with record
UOOh5 6ulUdOl6, VI IuC IcCOIuS IS4u1I0O
by the existing law? Yes.
hereby certify the above to be cor
rect statement of the work of this Office,
in the matters herein reported, for the
quarter ending this day.
Dated at Wa-Keeney, this 18th day of
March, 1887.
A. B. BAKER,
County Superintendent, Trego County.
In the matter of road petition presented
by G. w. Staplin and others. asking for
the location of road on section lines in
Glencoe township, board decided that
petition and further proceedings are I'M
necessary, as the law already makes all
section lines legal roads.
The following claims against the county
were taken up for action:
Oloff Forsse, jailer, Saline county.
amount, $119.4O. This was refused,
board claiming that as Wallace county
has allowed some of the claims in case
of McMicken, confined at Salina for
murder committed in Wallace county,
that county should liquidate all expenses
in the case. Charles Miller, sheriff of
Ellis county, presented various claims,
amounting to $523.96 OF these the COM
missioners allowed $1,000, which county
clerk was instructed to hold, the amount
having been garnisheed by Cyrus Mon
roe, of Wa-Keeney.
F. j. Knight was appointed constable
of Logan township, and his bond ap-
proved and filed.
o. T. Birkeland, of Collyer township,
and w. s. Knapp, of Ogallah township,
were appointed associate examiners of
county treasurers~ books for the present
quarter.
County warrants to the amount of
1924. 10 were returned by county treas
urer, cancelled by the board, and county
clerk instructed to give proper credits.
O. L. Cook, T. w. Miller and others
presented a petition asking for road,
location and description as follows: On
section line east and west, one mile south
of Graham and Trego county line, to
vacate that part of the said line between
section eleven QD and section two (2),
town eleven Q1), range twenty-four CA
west, where said line runs into and
across the Saline river, and locate a pub
lie highway as near said section line as is
practicable for a highway on the north
side of the Saline river, and also to vacate
that part of said line between section
eleven QD and section (2), town eleven
QD, range twenty-three), where said line
passes Happy Hollow, and locate pub
lie highway where said line is impractible
for a public highway. Petitioners hav-
ing given the proper bond, and demon
strated the necessity of changes above
described, commissioners appointed w.
E. Saum, A. L. Gleason and Daniel
Pershing as viewers of said road.
The following claims were allowed:
Geo w Cross, assessor. ....$ 700
Samuel King, road viewer 49,. 200
A B Baker, expenses as county
superintendent ....... 765
J F Keeney, rent of public offices 100 90
Peter Mundlock, digging grave
for pauper. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50
A B Baker. county Superinten-